elephant skin

“It’s like elephant skin,” said Cathy Beck, a scientist emeritus at the U.S.

I chose a fat crayon the color of elephant skin or a rainy sidewalk.

But when they ran computer simulations of growing elephant skin, they found that the skin didn’t crack as they anticipated.

That hunch received a boost when Dr. Milinkovitch’s team examined elephant skin samples under a microscope.

Further study of the skin tissue revealed that dead elephant skin cells resemble those of humans suffering from ichthyosis vulgaris, a disease found in one out of every 250 people that prevents the shedding of skin.